Management/Analysis, Enterprise Architect, Solutions Architect Resume

SUMMARY:

20 years successful international business and IT experience with a Global 500 company and start - up companies serving a full range of financial industry practices including investment banking, capital markets, and algorithmic trading systems, clearing and settlement, and payment systems.
Global experience with Program/Project management and methods
Vendor management including (IBM, HP, MSFT, Cisco, various global telecom firms
Experience with large-scale projects, streamlining information from complex to simple, brainstorming solutions, discovering new viewpoints using innovative methods
Strong management background including team motivation, contract negotiations, budgets, return on investment (ROI), partner relationship management, and profit/loss responsibility
Recognized technology leader and respected influencer in financial markets
International background in Europe, North America, and the Asia Pacific Rim
Experience in technologies (JEE, .Net, any relational database, web, cloud)
Experience in modelling (OO, MOA, SOA/ROA, DDD)
Experience in compliance (MiFID I/II, MiFIR, Dodd-Frank, Basel II/III, SEPA, EMIR)
MiFID SME - invited speaker presentation October 2015 at the Swiss Financial Business Group meeting
“MiFID II/MiFIR vs. Dodd-Frank”

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Management/Analysis, Enterprise Architect, Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

Project Director/Manager for several international financial services projects with firms covering investment/retail banking, capital markets, clearing and settlement. Responsible for overall planning, requirements gathering, solution design, change management process, risks, issues, testing and implementation within budget and on schedule. SWIFT partner since 2008 (Payments, E&I, Corporate Actions, Funds, Securities, FpML, 15022, 20022, Clearing and settlement) Projects include

Vice President and Managing Director

Responsibilities:

Opened and staffed the European headquarters in Baden, Switzerland for US-based start-up parent company.
Negotiated corporate tax ruling with local Swiss authorities.
Created and implemented the Reseller Channel Partner Program across Europe.
Initiated and launched the global alliance with HP and IBM to promote sales, marketing, and support agreements.
Created the sales methodology and staff training to increase the sales pipeline.
Developed competitive assessment and training for the European Partners.
Achieved forecasts within 5% variance.
Returned profit to the US headquarters within the first 12 months.

Technical Director Financial Engineering

Responsibilities:

Formulated and implemented strategic software products used in large-scale distributed commercial and financial transaction processing systems.
Technical architect for online real-time transaction processing and database products.
Member of the Strategic Engineering Management team.
Reorganized, downsized, and recommended external mergers for commercial engineering groups and/or buyers of discontinued software products.
Managed annual engineering budget for 350 developers in Europe and US.

Group Manager, Highly Available Software Engineering

Responsibilities:

Primary focus was for large-scale distributed networks.
Designed and developed the first N-tier client-server middleware technology (RTR).
Created Digital’s engineering center for high-performance, fault tolerant software products.
Managed engineering budgets, hired and trained technical development staff.
Funded high-performance research at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.
Developed software products for non-Digital hardware platforms.

Senior Technical Architect/Consultant,

Responsibilities:

Technical system architecture for the Swiss Options and Financial Futures Exchange (SOFFEX).
Consulted with several exchanges on implementing fault resilient technology into their current or newly created trading systems.
Designed Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) F/X trading system.
Designed and implemented fault tolerant software and messaging middleware for the VAX/VMS operating system.
Technical consultant throughout Europe for major VAX/VMS clustering technology customers.
Presentations at financial services forums on high-performance fault-tolerant trading systems.